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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> First, please post a short test program that exhibits this behavior.

I had something like:

int t = (int)uclock();
while(t < 0x2000)
{
  printf("%i", t);
  t = (int)uclock();
}

It wasn't anything really, just trying to figure out why other things I
was doing were messing up.  Like why when I time one thing before
another, the first one's always shorter.  And if something is short
enough the time is negative.  Well, I know why now.

> And second, describe the operating system you are running (DOS?
> Windows? which version?).  `uclock' is known to have problems on some
> versions of Windows, but you don't tell enough to decide whether this
> is your problem.

I'm running Windows 98.  The problem is uclock() counts up from 0, after
the first call, to around 0x1200.  I couldn't tell because I don't see
every number it counts, then jumps down to -64000 or so, then counts up
normally from there as far as I can tell.  If you consider a timer
counting up negative numbers normal, then reaches 0 and keeps counting
up like it's supposed to.  I'm running a Pentium-166, if that helps.

Sean